by Thomas Kidd | Jun 4, 2014 | Opinion
One of the recent topics in my small group at church was “unplugging” or fasting from technology. Fasting is, of course, an ancient practice, but in the past 50 years or so it has been applied more and more to electronic devices, from the radio to the...
by Robert Parham | Jun 3, 2014 | Opinion
Upon hearing that the Black Keys were playing a private concert in Nashville last week–broadcast around the world by SiriusXM radio–I vaguely recognized the band’s name. But I wondered, “What’s the big deal? Who are The Black Eyed Peas?...
by Tony W. Cartledge | Jun 2, 2014 | Opinion
It should come at no surprise that purging the Southern Baptist Convention of non-fundamentalists did not usher in the great wave of evangelistic growth promised by its leaders. The “takeover of the SBC” — not forgotten by the older crowd, and never...
by Bob Newell | Jun 2, 2014 | Opinion
When we founded PORTA–the Albania House in Athens, we chose its name for strategic reasons. Porta is found in both the Greek and Albanian languages, meaning door or gate. We knew that this word would help to open a larger universe of possibility for Albanians....
by Faliku S. Dukuly and Richard Wilson | Jun 2, 2014 | Opinion
Liberians can be heard making two statements regularly. 1. “Pray for the church, pray for the offering, pray for the poor, pray for unity in the church and in our nation, and pray for our church leaders, that they will have the courage to lead their flocks with...
by Steve Davis | Jun 2, 2014 | Opinion
To some degree, the world we see shapes our reality. Perhaps you know the following colloquial short story. A Chinese emperor saw some men leading an ox down the street, headed for the temple where the ox would be slaughtered in a religious ceremony. The emperor was...
